53.50 ba # T m3 Selman Cd RS Ra RN lw BAER Ah ol 11, cp apn Ln tin a rad providence e was spanifested inthe pres x X Ersoy re nie ¢ ECOUNTY, PEN BULLEFONTE, CENTRE 5 N\ L s4TuRDAY BEN] ret ages rer nade a x mse Sn? A Rin CIA £3 Serer a R= ES ACI ————— eres CONDITIONS. don of Mrs. W’s life. The house in The price of this paper is (wo duddorstighich they resided being much crowded end fifty cents per annum— but i paid hall Mrs, W. bad for her bed companion z yeauly dn advance, two dollais only will be : : tei charred. ; white domestic, one of the sisterhood — “ldvertisements, making no more ilwhes the appointed time arrived lor the length then | rodth; will be serted three times for-one dollar ; and for every subse. 2 ) quent continuance twenty-five cents.—|which was nine o'clock, Mrs. W. with a Biioss of FREE I palpitating, heart went to her chamber and’ Rule ov firare work double those rates. No sul Pei will be received for less than ope year; nor any paper diS€entinu’ ed until all Arrearage: 5 are pai. If the subscriber does mot request a dis continuance of bis paper, at the end of the : vear, it will be considered as a new engage-{could not close her eyesin sleep, and await- ment ; and the paper forwarded according: iy . Subscribers who have iheir papers car ried by the mail, must be liable for the pos tage. wembers of this destroyed family to retin nccupied tie front part of the bed. Lhe girl, in consequence of having had a large washing on that day, did pot retire tha: night until near twelve o’clock.. Mrs. W ed the time of her expectéd desolation with y an awful suspence~—but judge her suiprise when about the hour of ten o'clock, hes room door opened. Hearing th is, she con Letters addressed to the editor must be cluded her ibed-f:1low had finished oe (Wiss an nd Was oom: ne 7 OR eT mom Liyat to her astonishment Jemimah entered Mercury. Maem ee Bremen. et eee eet. rn ere Lrom the Pittsbur th JEMIMA WILKINSON. holding a lighted candie in each hand, and This copsumate and Stcosssfil imposter passed close to her bed side, with a very : ttn the cite af Piiladiols Thy a i upon her visiting the city ol fadelphiay |, pace; looked at Mrs. W. without ug resided during her stay in that city, at the tering a word, after which she retired The novelty of such a Qar family became incomm>ded by the numer- se of my father. 7 . RR Mrs. W’s mind was racked with ten thous- harac attire reneral notice } lin : charactery attracted g and contending fears, and she couid not close her eyes. She continued in this state \ risicors th Ar desirous of com- ; : ‘ ; ous, visiiors: that Bres until the hour of 11 o'clock arrived.” Je unica vith her, on the nnportant sub-| | ; mualcxdug witlyher, ‘on the wy TE imima re-appeared, after the same manner ject of religion. He Ly as joe! of reigion. Her populasity las before, represented, pursued the same been preacheress, has never surpassed. course as before, and retired without ut- {tering a word: Mrs. W. could not fathom, Church, was by the trustees granted her, yop mysterious conduct in winch how oratery was displayed to the! The Methodist Episcopal Sie: Georges At the approach] (of midnight, her apprehensions becam ¢ in- supportable. It 50 happened by the orders of an over ruling hand that before the Lour of twelve o'clock, the girl did retire and inl order to accommodate her, Mus, W. re- moved to the back part of the bed ; 5 and the gir] ook her warm place ; 3 and on account of her being much fatigued, she soon fell ; asleep—About the dead hour of midnight commanding and audible voice. the dour again opened. All was darkness ; Upon any occasion when she walked out,jand Mrs®W. could not perceive the object the crowd that attended her person, became {that entered, but she heard it approaching towards the bed. - Ofa sudden the girl be- gan. to struggle for existance.—~Mpes. W. not knowing the cause, gave the alarm and a person fled with precipitation from the room. Murs. W. interrogated the gir] the cause. wonder and astonishment of thousands who attended hee ministrations. She was mas- culine, by articulation and appearance.e— Her jot black hair, ‘whizh she aiways kept! moist, by frequent washing which made it assume a glossy appearauce, with black eyes and fair complexion, gave her an in- teresting appearance. She possessed a so great that at was inconvenient for to be’ seen in public. After this discovery she would not be secon walking. - When she paid a visit, or attendcd divine service, her followers had her conveyed in a carriage to or destined yer a : her destined place. 1 remember perfect. respecting Tok silver ‘wos ly well, that the street and pavements op- osite my fathers hou=e, were witho “ ute P y ¥ ) v atinter-land was trying to strangle her Here was mission crowded daily mr ¢ ” 1 hin S. WwW Our next door neighbor; S. W. became his fiend, this monster of depravity.” one of her prosclytes, and when Jemima! From this circumstance, it appears self! took her departure from our city, this 'in- evident. that Jemima’s two first visits w ith! fatuated lady, forsook 1sbati tuated lady, forsook her husbadd and the candles, were to reconnoitre and ascer® children and acco ompanied her, witha num- tain the exact position of her intended vic ber of others, to ber new settlement, This! tim; that her prediction should be ver- time absent, ified; and by that from her family, before she retumedi ini dis~ [ation of adv: 8i es raises ’ a Qc ) 1 | lady did not coutinue a long fants x Lee, her possessing supernatural . va Q } 3 Ny! p: . 3 ge - : , gust ag An 3t this imposter. The repoitip OWels would be established in the minds which circulated respecting the circum. of her crédulous followers. But stance happily of this womans re-appearance, was her design was frustrated by Mrs. Wa, as nearly as I can recollect as follows. leaving her first position ; and her maps \Wher her, and her followers, were scat. |derous intention was defeated. Had Mrs. . f. 2 ! qintai n he ‘ on Lm - 1 ed in the chapel ; and afier a long silence | W. maintained the place she fi: st occupied. Jemima arose from ber seat, and with an | her success would havd been complete. audible voice proclaimed, Sarah—Sarah|On account of the fatigue of the girl her ~—Sarab !——T have a messare from God sleep would have been so heavy that Shel “unto the-—this night thy soul will be Fesilie- tv ould be ‘insensible to the struggles oft edofthee.”” She then satdown. Mrs W.iMrg, W ~—GConsequently, the morning has been heard to say, that such a terror igh would have proclaimed to her devo-it seized on her mind, and th t of her an ik iy her knowledge of future events, and ditors as tongue could not describe. Was on account: of their This {of her having a direct intercourse with Al imjplech might y (zod. a LET a : i oy : 1 fut in her as a propheiess. This hap |her followers, that they viewed her as a pencd In the winter ; and a remackabl second Christ. 1 oe ’ having Such was the credulit y ol dressed in white, with a veil over her head, that some person had her by the throats at once a developement of the character of NSYLV. NIA, PRINTED BY W. BRINDLE. Rd, Cx ast te reach ely hy sged of Mr Rush to bingo these documents Bnder Afters ihe public ical means she bad resorted to, for the far ther purpose of imposition, many anecdotes |t got in circulation vespecting her, which be- | came the topic of general conversation and |the cavbest lsh ofthe British Goren shali be the subject of another tummunica- that. the exerticis of the two counties. might be combined upon a a somewhat lt, lates to this extraordinary and wonderfulilar principle, | to put down this great mors ‘ion, us I conceive every particular that re woman, must be interesting to the commu- jal disobedier nce to the laws of both cowne nity. Bn tries, wherever it might be committed; 3 = 4 {dmg expressing his belief, that this could From the Boston Daily Adv. Aug. 24. | effectually be done except by mutually NEGOTIATION. conceding to each other’s ships of war a Between Great United | qualified right of search, with a power of States for the extinction of the Slave Trade. Briain and the detaining the vessels ot either State vith It has been repeatedly mentioned thatiGiives actually oh board 3 and remarking propositions have boen made by the British RoYernImetY for some lpi with to effect by wished whi ch that if the American Government w ere dis posed to enter into a similat concert, ard ji§ country, for carrying i teould suggest any further regs atiofs, the helter 0 ‘tbriate ghnes, the $7 wie = Tie Ro rhment would be most reads to lies en to this Jail efyris, the jk wy Bods un tus subject; b ba ‘we have seen no account y published in : such suggestions : country of the precise nature of the negoti. their only olijcet being : i ito contribute, by every effort in thei now. ations which have been héd between the : : er, to put an end to this disgracein! traffis ST's At The § A A hy x Reo governess Fhe plowing Ba RUE Mr. Rush most readil yp omised to trans which is copied from the Thirteenth Re- . i ; / : : mit to his government copies of Lord Cass port of the African Institution, published , x tlereagh’s Note, and the documents which in -March last, gives a very salisficlony | accompanied it, view of the whole transaction, | Towards the latter end of Détcinbe 20 id he mith of : : stle In the mouth of June last, lord Castl ‘Mr. Rush transmitted an ser Cast! lereach er to Mr. Rash, the | 1. = American minister in London, respecting In this Note, Mr. Rush * the more clfectual abolition of the African ‘had ‘been distirctly comman Slave Trade ; in which his lordship observ. yfisst place, to make known the sensibili reach addressed a lett et, hts with the exception of the crown] lof ¢ he President to the fi endly spire of we” Portugal all <tates had now either actu-'confidence in which tha rentiom ally roiled the wraffic i In slaves to their Great Britain, subjects, or fixed an ear) ly period for its Netherland Portugal, Spain, Is, and the lerislative mo: : > “8 cessation, w hilet I g1tugal had also renounc- lof Parliamerit founded upon them, hac ted it to the north of the equator ; that, from! communicated Uoitad St os to ad bee n’ Fiven to the May 1826, there would not be a flag which the invitation. which 1 could legally cover this detested traffic, to: (they would jo in in the same Hesig | lat ara the north of the line ; < a oe ¥ gw » and that there was! rangements, the more effectually t6 a come reason to hope, that the Portuguese might! onic the benef : : ficial object to which they are long be also prepared to abandon it to, ok. He was further commonded to give the south of the Equator ; but that, until; Ithestrongest assurances that the s'licitdde some effectual concert should be establish-| of the United States for the universal ex- ed amongst the principal maritime powers! tivation of the Slave Trade continues with to prevent their respective flags from being 451 the earnestness which has so long and made a cover for an illicit Slave Trade? gq. y distinguished the course of their thers was but too much reason to fear what- policy in relation to it. ‘ever might be the state of the law on this| Of their general profibitery law of 1807 : t i 1 i % A . a. subject, that the evil would continue 10 nr. pop says it is unnecessary for him to exist; and in proportion as it assumed &lspeak, his lordship being already apprised contraband form, would be carricd on un- fof j its provisions; amongst which the au der the most ageravated circumstances of thority to employ the national force, as cruelty and desolation ; aiid that it wag from auxiliary to its execution, will not have a deep conviction of this truth, founded vp-iescaped attention. on ‘experience, that the British govern-{. But he has in charge to. make knos wn, ment, in all its late negotiations upon this asa new pledge of their unremitting and = : lsubje ccty had endeavored to combine a sys- lactive desire in the cansa of Abolition tem of alliance for the su pression of this ‘that so lately as the month of A: pril most injurious practice, wit last dy by which rot only are the citizens and vessels ing with the governments of Spain and Por- {of the United States interdicted from. care tugal for the total or partial abolition of rying on, being in any way encaged in the the Slave Trade. the engage-ianagther act of Cou gress was passe ay ments which it had succeeded in contract: trade : but in which also the best precau- . . - / > 1 e ; : - His lordship inclosed to Mr, Rush co-|iisneathat legislative enactments can devise pies of those treaties, together with thefor their penalties sed up. enforce, are rai rhe ne 3 - tl acts which had received the sanctien oi} territos against the introduction into their pariiament for carrying them into execu-|iies of Slaves from abroad, under whatever don. He also transmitted a copy of the pretext attempted, and especially from do- jee caty which had just been concluded with} minions which lie more immediately in v ithe king of the Netherlands, for the like|their neighborhood The $ 1 - . purpose ; to which his lordship was indac he eighth section of the Act, which throws { A to call Mr. Rush’s aitention more pat- japon a defendant the | peculiarity in bour of proof as the seiitial. Me Rush persuaded ticularly, as it contains provisions ‘calculat- | condition of acquinal, Mr Rush persuaded ed {to limit the pow ers mu! ually concede ed! ni imself v¢ ould be rege at vdeo ed as sig nally mane {by the former treaties, in a manner which, ifesting an anxiety to suppress. the: hateful, 3 does, from the 3 might render them more acceplable to the sutosy of criminal jurisprudence, which » generally requires the in depencent md! without essentially weaksning their force! offence 3 departing, as it {contracting parties.
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